It Gets Complicated
The party was really amazing and he minute that everypony got over the amazement that I'd somehow been here all the time and preparing to surprise myself they instantly all crowded round me and began to shake my hoof.
I just couldn't help but grin that the ponies whose eardrums I'd almost shattered were throwing me a party in honour of me just coming to town.
To say I felt no guilt would be a lie but then again I never felt that bad about the things I did, only if I unintentionally did something cruel lie the one time I stole candy from a foal (that got me a week in the local jail) however the point still stood that I was generally a good guy... at least that's what I thought.
Bon Bon came over to see me and I was surprised when she have me a small big and asked "Were you really here this entire time Dawn"? I smiled and pretended to act as surprised as she was and responded "Yeah I had absolutely no idea who the party was for, I just arrived and you were setting up so I decided to help since this is your house".
Bon Bon smiled and said "Don't think of it as my house Dawn, it's your house too now and you can do whatever you want with it". Bon Bon was just too kind and I could help but give her a big thank you before I was once more introduced by Pinkie to somepony else by the name of Rainbow Dash.
I should have been paying more attention as I realised I was the same rainbow Pegasus who'd been chasing me a few hours ago but with a bandage over her left wing and a little sour expression on her face.
I covered up my initial shock and gave an easy going and overall friendly smile and bid her "Hello Rainbow Dash it's nice to meet you.
"Are you ok that looks painful"? She tried to perk up a little but she didn't actually smile but instead gave a look of annoyance as she explained "Yeah well today there was a robber or something and he... he outran me when I was chasing him and I crashed into this house and I bruised my left wing but don't worry I'm alright it's just my pride" she perked up shaking my hoof and smiling.
"Hah you could always change your name to Rainbow Crash" I suggested comically. She didn't seem to get the joke and instead actually got real mad and stormed off over to the punch bowl. "Mares" I thought and then remembered something about her.
This mare matched the name Pinkie Pie had told me this morning and I made a mental note to snap her picture later on as well as Pinkie's and that Apple pony who'd looked dead on her feet the last time I'd seen her when I'd been stealing her trophy.
Finished with the introduction for now I went over to the food table and looked at all the scrumptious things although I wasn't really hungry for any of them. However I met the white Unicorn with the lovely purple mane over there and instantly any thought of anything went off my mind.
"Well hello there darling" she said in a posh accent which instantly made me shiver and recall the ponies of Canterlot. However I didn't want to appear rude so I responded "Hello there Miss..."? "Oh Rarity is the name darling and fashion is my trade" she finished my sentence with a flick of her mane and a flash of her eyelashes.
She was certainly gorgeous but then again I supposed these fashion ponies really prided themselves on their looks. "W-well it is amazing to meet you Miss Rarity" I said again with a shake of her hoof whilst realising she was another element bearer and making a mental note to get her picture later as well.
"So I hear that you are thinking of moving to Ponyville, so where do you come from then Mr Dawn"? I panicked, I hadn't exactly made much of a back story yet and if anypony could remember the papers ten years ago the name Dawn, Canterlot and my cutie mark would be easy to piece together to associate me with what I once was.
"I-I" I stammered whilst internally thinking "Play it cool Dawn, play it cool" and beginning to sweat. "I come from The Kingdom of the Griffons" I said and made a mental note to smack myself later on tonight.
Everypony just looked at me in confusion and Rarity pointed out "Forgive me for saying this but you don't look like you're from there I mean you aren't actually a Griffon".
Everypony nodded their heads and looked at me for an answer so I provided by responding "Well it's actually an interesting story see my parents were quill makers and moved to the Griffon Kingdom for cheap and strong feathers since they're all birds and shed more than any other creature in Equestria so then they transported them back to Equestria and made a small fortune" I said and everypony instantly ate up my lie and began murmuring and discussing my lie.
"So why did you desire to move back Mr" asked a mare I think wen by the name of Dune Bug and I easily lied "Well I felt that it was time for me to leave and get back and explore the Equestria I never saw so you see that's why I want to buy a house yet also explore whilst I'm at it and may I just say that the day that I arrived in Ponyville I was instantly captured by its looks and more importantly he hearts of its wonderful citizens".
Everypony awed and instantly began to clap and I couldn't help but show off my charming smile as the occasion called for it. However I was in a dangerous position now as everypony was crowding behind me and now it seemed more like an interrogation than a party.
"Forgive me for asking but what's your cutie mark for Mr?" asked a pony with an arcade game for a cutie mark and a bright green coat. I laughed and instantly blurted out "I'm an undertaker" before once more internal face-hoofing, I could lie better than this so what was wrong with me.
Everypony was quite surprised and a Pinkie asked "How in the name of cupcakes did you discover that for your special talent"? I once more sweated as I replied "Oh well I buried a dead squirrel when I was young and then, poof I had a cutie mark of a skull on fire".
Everypony seemed to nod in agreement and I instantly tried to change the subject before anypony asked me a question and pointed the conversation to the biggest talker in the room. "Pinkie I see you're a savvy baker so tell me how did you learn to bake so good"?
The instant the question left my lips the mare seemed to explode into a verbal flood which pained everypony and happily for me broke up the circle and allowed me to go over to the punch bowl where I instantly took a glass and drank it all in one to.
There was hardly any alcohol in it and I really needed some right now so I quickly had another four glasses before I came away from the table to see that Pinkie was still going.
However I was lucky when Bon Bon put on some music and Pinkie got distracted and went over to dance and generally hop around. I Sat down at a nearby table with some punch and tried to remember everypony's names.
"A little overwhelming isn't it?" asked Rarity who surprised me from across the table where she had taken a seat. She was a truly beautiful mare but that can make mares dangerous as I had learned In the past and had still to learn now as I replied dreamily "Yeah".
"You seem like a really nice guy for an undertaker" she inquired and I nodded staring at her before snapping out of my haze and answering "Erm, er yeah well I guess my personality overrides the morbid streak in me".
She nodded and sat back with a contented sigh whilst looking across the room. Despite the fact she was distracting I thought it a good time to grill her for information about Twilight and her friends and asked "So a little birdie told me that you are a bearer of an Element of Harmony and a friend of a certain librarian in town".
Rarity brightened up and replied "You mean Twilight, why yes she is a dear and represents the magic of the six elements".
I mentally filed this and made a mental not to pat myself on the back and asked "Surely you are the magical element of the group"? Rarity blushed and with a small giggle answered "Oh no I'm nowhere near as talented as she is, but I do represent the element of generosity which I suppose is an important part of the friendship of magic".
"What in Equestria is she on about" I asked myself and pushed forwards, asking her "Friendship is Magic?" with a genuinely puzzled expression. She nodded and explained "Yes you see the Elements of Harmony are represented by the mane six and run on the Magic of Friendship which each one of us represents.
Pinkie represents laughter, I represent generosity, Rainbow represents loyalty, Applejack honesty, Fluttershy which is one of the mares you haven't met represents kindness and Twilight is the magic which holds us all together".
"Did I hear my name?" asked a voice from above us and I looked up to see the face of none other than Twilight Sparkle. "Why hello Miss Sparkle, I didn't expect you just now" I apologised and Twilight looked at me with a strange look and asked "Have we met before"?
I went to my brain for answers but all it gave me was that she smelled of paper so I responded "You smell like books". Rarity looked from me to Twilight and Twilight just chuckled and replied "Ah yes well that's what you get for living in a library I suppose".
I laughed awkwardly as well and said "We'll excuse me I'll leave you ladies to talk" before I got up to go to someplace which wasn't anywhere near her but then I heard her voice again reply "Your that tourist from this morning, you know the one in the red cap and the terrible green floral shirt with the camera round his neck".
I sighed and turned round to respond cheerfully but then a shout from across the room which came from the tomboy Rainbow Dash made me freeze and then made me shiver when she yelled "That's what the thief was wearing this morning when I was chasing him"!
Everypony instantly looked towards me and Twilight seemed to be processing these thoughts and began to think aloud "You match the description of the pony Rainbow chased and I saw you near the Town Hall, you're new to town and you look quite fit as well and seem to be quite charming, you are the perfect criminal to perform this and you could easily be Lyon about you're cutie mark.
I was speechless once more and cursed that shirt and stupid red hat as I tried to come up with an explanation. "I can explain" I said weakly but suddenly two stallions came out of nowhere and held me by my fore-hooves. I tried to shake them off but they tightened their grip and I pleaded "I didn't do it".
Twilight continued and began to piece everything together and pointed out "You could have easily slipped through the crowd and accessed the controls in the Machine Room and then after climbing the stairs to the roof pulled the trophy up with a rope which I noticed had been taken from a nearby vendors stall right by the clothes store where a pony reports having clothing items disappear and then when I discovered your plans after you ran and crashed into the alleyway trashcans when giving Rainbow the slip which is why you smell of mouldy courgette"!
"Do I really smell the bad?" I asked comically but nopony was laughing and simply looking at me with shocked realization and slight disgust as the two stallions holding me began to drag me away. "Look you have to believe me I know the facts seem really, really accurately true but I swear that I'm innocent"!
Everypony simply turned away and Bon Bon even started to cry a little. Suddenly however the door in front of me opened and in stepped a pony with a yellow coat and a red mane who was wearing a red cap, horrible floral shirt and a camera from the same vendor and he asked "I'm sorry but I just fell into a nearby dump after tearing my shirt whilst practicing my acrobatics skills can I borrow a phone cause I need to get of Ponyville quickly".
Everypony stared and looked from me to the tourist which the Spirits of luck had gifted me with and then to Twilight who sheepishly lowered her head and responded with a slight "Oops".
The stallions immediately let me go and made a move for the acrobatic tourist who was about to receive the surprise of his life however before they could grab him he dodged and yelled "Fine I'll use another phone" before he took off down the street followed by the other two.
I got up and brushed myself down whilst Everypony looked at me with apologetic looks and especially Twilight. "Dawn we're, we're so sorry" Twilight apologised but I took it as an excellent time to use my acting skills and spat back "No, I don't want to hear any apologies I'm frankly disgusted with what has just occurred, I am nothing if not law abiding and respected Undertaker and you have all just blatantly insulted those two things which make me who I am.
I think maybe Ponyville is overrated, maybe Manehatten would be better I yelled as I made my dramatic escape up the stairs whilst everypony poured their apologies out at me from the pits of their hearts.
"I'm sorry everypony but… I think you should leave" I said with a look of both sadness and anger whilst inside I felt feelings of relief only. "Please we're sorry" everypony began to say but I didn't listen.
I pretended to ignore them all and went straight to my room and slammed the door. I held the frown I had adopted for a few more seconds before I relaxed my face muscles and burst into tiny fits of laughter. I had actually just got away with that and all because of some gymnast who was on holiday and wanted to use the phone and happened to have bad taste in fashion.
"When I write my auto-biography this gets an entire chapter" I told myself with a contented sigh. It was pretty late and I guessed I had successfully disbanded the party and probably caused all the guests to feel shame and sorrow for their accusations and why they'd not believed me.
I decide it might be a good time to write up a little bit of the reports of information I was going to gather so I could work out how to make Twilight open the vault.
Twilight Sparkle, she was certainly a savvy investigator and certainly no pushover in the brain department. In future if I wanted to perform such acts of villainous stupidity I might want to be a tad more careful and make sure Twilight wasn't in a five mile radius of the crime.
I remembered that smell on her if books and didn't know what to think. Everypony probably thought I was just generally stinky but the smell on her was just mind of... Interesting. It would be easy now that everypony wanted to apologise to me to get juicy information from them and other favours so in a way this little show was quite fruitful.
However I couldn't help but feel guilty. Well not exactly guilty but more guilty than usual and I didn't understand why since I'd once tricked a mare who had a kitten orphanage to give me all her money with the excuse of taxes and I hadn't felt bad so it was obviously not the part guests kindness which was affecting my conscious.
Frowning I retrieve my fancy quill and ink and began to write on a piece of parchment. I knew how to write reports since sometimes me and Niles had taken investigation cases for rulers or merchants or local guards and police forces and of course the red tape ponies couldn't understand a spoken explanation so needed a written one from me instead and that needed three weeks of circling desks between multiple offices before it got delivered to the right pony.
This meant I had practice and was quickly into my third page when there was a sudden knock at the door. I covered up the papers and threw myself onto my bed before saying "Come in". The door slowly opened and as I expected Bon Bon walked in with a tray of cupcakes and a look of great guilt on her face.
"I just wanted to know if you were hungry or not cause Pinkie left these cupcakes and insisted that you receive some" she said sweetly but with guilt edged deep into her face. I decided that maybe I'd let her feel this way long enough and decided to ease her mind.
"It's ok Bon Bon" I said denying both the cupcakes and continuing my sentence I told her "You don't need to look like that, I forgive you I mean I might have overreacted a bit as well but then again I think we all did in a way".
She blinked and pushed the idea that she was guilty away with a sharp intake of breath and a wave of her hoof.
"I'm not feeling guilty... well ok I really am" she said tearing up a bit and looking a little dizzy. I let her in my room and she took a seat on my bed and explained "It's just when you were accused I was feeling ashamed and believed the allegations against you to be true and the thoughts of me harbouring a criminal in this house were just... dreadful" she stammered I nodded my head and pretended to look really understanding when I was actually beginning to feel a little bored from her constant yammer.
"Yes well it was nice of you to offer me the cupcakes and I know that next time everypony won't be so quick to judge the new guy" I said as I opened the door to my room and ushered her over to it.
She totally agreed and nodded "Believe me I will never ever do that oh and that reminds me about Twilight" she said and my ears instantly shot to attention and I eagerly asked "Why, what, when"?
My eagerness seemed to startle her slightly but she carried on and explained "Well when the party broke up she asked if I could tell you to meet her later tonight for some reason and I told her I'd tell you in an hour and well here I am".
I nodded my head and began to think of all the possible explanations. "Ok well thank you Bon Bon I think I will go and see her and make sure we're square" I told her with a smile whilst on the inside I felt the little dastardly voice do a somersault. Bon Bon smiled and replied "Glad to be the messenger and Dawn... once more I and everypony else is really sorry for what happened tonight at the party but believe me when I say that Ponyville isn't usually like this".
I nodded in understanding and told her "I'll head out in ten minutes I just have to finish some things first". She nodded once more and closer the door and I did a little immature punch of the air before calming down and going back over to all the written information on Twilight and her friends I had.
I finished the third page and looked at all the information I'd gathered so far. Besides from accurate and detailed descriptions and the initial personalities they portrayed, elements they represented and other general like their jobs I knew nothing about their backgrounds, their favourite music, foods (although I guessed what Pinkie's was), what they feared, what they liked and disliked and what family they had.
I wanted as much information I could get before I even attempted to blackmail or force anypony to do anything but I didn't rule out seduction or trickery as I thought I'd gotten on very well with the other ponies and especially Rarity who I was positive with a week I could have doing backflips and with her generous nature which she'd mentioned she'd be more ban willing to help me.
Now that the other ponies had falsely accused me of the attempted robbery it would make my life so much easy and hopefully enable me to get closer to the mane six.
I'd been in proximity or met all of them except the sleepy orchard worker Applejack who'd looked dead on her feet last I'd seen her. Perhaps I could use that sleepiness to my advantage.
I decided to stop thinking and his he note before making my way down the stairs and to the front door. Lyra was sitting on the sofa and smiled to me and gave a little wave. I gave a small wave as well as I shut the door and headed down the huge streets of Ponyville in the direction of the library.
Very soon I was at Twilight's door as the street lamps flickered on and the Twilight which had lit the way ended and ark was cell. The lamps did a good job of chasing it all away though and before I could even knock on the door I was supposed when it opened up right in front of me and a rather skittish looking Twilight Sparkle pulled me inside.
I was surprised by how afraid she seemed to look and asked her in as kind a tone of voice I could muster "What's the matter Miss Sparkle"? She seemed to focus on my voice and her bright purple eyes focused on me and she told me "Don't call me Miss Sparkle just Twilight please" and so I nodded with a smile and replied "Ok Twilight, is there something you need as I realise it's not usual to call just anypony down at this time of night".
Her eyes seemed to look everywhere but mine as she explained in a surprisingly shaky tone for such a commanding mare "Well you see that's really the thing it's not what I need it's what you need, I made some tea let me to get it" she said as she Dashed from one side if he library to the other and retrieved a pot of tea with her magic which she levitated shakily through the air.
"Twilight...?" I asked but there was no calming her as she frantically explained "We'll you see I kind of wanted to have a little chat with you as I might have been wrong about a certain crime you didn't commit and you see it wasn't good when you left in such a hurry after we almost arrested you and that was mainly my fault and by the way I'm really sorry for that" she said taking a breath and I once more flatly asked "Twilight...?" But there was just no stopping her as she spilt the tea which she shakily tried to pour into the cup whilst shakily continuing her explanation of why I was here at this hour.
"Now err... Mr D-D-Dawn I am usually not one to jump to conclusions but instead research them and the make judgement as you see I'm here to study friendship and by alienating you I just had one of the biggest failures yet since I've arrived here and to write back to my mentor the Princess tonight without the matter being resolved wouldn't exactly be ok with me and I'm sure neither her and you see I really like my friends and my mentor and I don't want to let them down so I'm kind of found to ask you a question and if you want you can answer yes and if not then you can answer no it is entirely up to you and you alone" she stammered.
I nodded calmly and let her clam down before she took another sharp intake of breath and quickly asked "Do you wish to go out for tea with me and my friends' tomorrow afternoon"?
Well of course the chance of getting to meet all the elements together and question them meant I had to say yes however I had to look like I was still a little hurt from the mishap today and so I adopted a slight frown and answered "Well I... I don't really know" but Twilight instantly leapt up and sugar coated it by desperately adding "I'll also give you a personal tour of Ponyville and library card which lets you check out as many books as you want"!
I sighed and pretended to look like this was a really big thing I was excepting before responding "Ok I accept" much to Twilight's happiness and she whooped and for a second I thought she'd do a somersault before she calmed down and regains she'd compare before politely asking "Now that that's out of the way did you want tea" she gestured to the pot which was mainly empty as the majority of the contents was all across the floor.
"I'll pass" I said and with a look out the window told her "I should probably get going its really dark" before I began moving closer and closer to the door. Twilight hovered around and it and opened it with a kind look of great fullness.
I stood on the outside of the door and she on the inside and we both looked at each other for a few moments at a complete loss of what to say.
Generally I could easily turn on the charm with the ladies and especially in a situation where he made is all flustered and apologetic but right now I was finding It hard to come up with a dashing goodbye so I stammered out a simple "Goodbye" but Twilight had me beaten and stammered out "See ya" at the same time. We blinked and I sheepishly began stepping back as she slowly closed the door.
Not the greatest goodbyes as goodbyes went but then it had been a really strange and really brief encounter. Although being able to take tea with all the Elements meant lots of great info I was worried about how Twilight had just acted.
She was really faithful to the Princess and I couldn't see her willingly opening the vault unless the occasion really arises and the elements had to be used but somehow I believed the elements wouldn't be called out much except for battling the forces of chaos and darkness which I didn't have locked away in my backpack and couldn't exactly just organise.
I walked back to my house and opened the front door quietly. I'd need to ask for keys at one point but it didn't seem like a problem since nopony in Ponyville seemed to lock their doors. There was nopony on the bottom floor and everything was dark so I quietly headed for the stairs when suddenly I received the surprise of a lifetime.
A nasty crack echoed around the room and I felt what I thought was a baseball bat hit the back of my head. I went down immediately but surprised myself when I didn't black out however my ears instantly went ringing and my vision became a blurry mix I colours.
My limbs were paralysed but I could still faintly feel as a hoof grabbed me around the chest and began to drag me away from the stairs and over to the basement which Bon Bon said was Lyra's space and where I shouldn't poke around.
My vision focused slightly and I began to see the fuzzy image of a pony clad in black but then suddenly It felt like we were going down and I realised the pony was carrying me down the stairs.
I didn't have my voice or my hearing but part of me worried about the pony dropping me and I was confirmed right for my worries when at the final two steps I felt my back spam painfully into the cold concrete floor as she dropped me.
I groaned faintly and tried to death myself from the pain I was feeling right now but was unsuccessful and kept feeling the bruise on my head through the possible concussion and now I had to deal with maybe a cracked rib which was wonderful.
However although my brain speed had been reduced by about eighty-percent I was using I all to my fullest as I wondered "Who this pony was? "Was it an assassin or just some random crazy pony? Is she going to kill me or torture and then kill me? Thousands of questions all spinning around in my head all of which I couldn't begin to try and formulate an answer for.
I moaned in pain some more but got no response from my attacker. It could have been that she was talking to me but I was still dead and couldn't hear or it could have been that I had been left alone on the cold floor of the basement in the darkness. Or maybe this was death and if so it was fairly painful and very boring.
However I heard hoof steps and realised it was just that my attacker had left for a moment. I attempted to stand but my attacker pressed their weight on me and put my fore hooves behind my back before tying them with some rope. She the once more dragged me a little of a way to what looked like a chair which the apes would use. It was so weird seeing one of these here since usually the only chairs in Equestria were Sofa's, Armchairs and plush cushion which ponies would lie down on to rest and the rest of the time either stand or sit down on their haunches but the chair was never used at least not to my knowledge.
The pony yanked me up into the chair and with a very feminine grub and a tug she tied my fetlocks to the chair and propped my poor and very sore back against the chair.
I hissed in pain as she did this and she seemed to jump back as If I was a snake but then proceeded to tie my fore hooves to the back of the chair before stepping back to admire her work.
She nodded to herself then went to close the top of the basement door. I struggled weakly against the bonds which held me fast but my brain wasn't in gear and my ribs really hurt
"I can't believe that I've escaped hi-tech prisons and assassins only to be captured by some amateur" I thought. A little angry but also fearful since this was my first time which I was tied up in a basement and in this much pain.
I'd been in pain before and the worst ever was when I broke my back legs after leaping off a cliff which caused Niles two months of boredom and playing doctor. It wasn't a pleasant experience and neither was the feeling if being utterly powerless in front of a mare in black.
"Oh Celestia forgive me for all the wrongs I've inflicted upon mares" I silently gave a prayer in my mind although with the list of things I'd done for mare and to mares there would be hours' worth of reading material before any kind of consensus was reached.
The mare seemed stern although the faint light coming from a lamp on the ceiling couldn't give me any help in finding out more about my captor. However when she came over withe rifle levitating next to her cast in a minty magical flow I would be lying if I didn't say I was now worried.
A Unicorn could easily use that thing on me and unless I got one between the eyes or in the chest any other area that I was shot in could bring hours of pain and possible long term damage if I survived that long.
For one of few times in my life all the cockiness, bravado, charm and confidence was gone and all that remained was the fear in the pit of my stomach and it wasn't a food feeling. I tried to focus on using the techniques I'd learned over the years to she'd my bonds but I couldn't concentrate for the pain and fear in my head.
The mare approached me with a black mask over her face and showed the rifle really close to my face before asking slowly "Do you know why you are here"? I was shaking but I sure as hell wasn't going to go out screaming like a little girl and so I just shook my head.
He pony pressed the trigger system right up against my eye until my eyeball was nearly touching it and I feared I'd lose my eye. "Do you know what this thing of yours is?" She asked in a demanding tone and I shook my her and she quietly answered "I don't believe you, this is some kind of leaved by it cannot be easily accessed by pony-kind without difficulty which means by its size and shape it was built for...?" She prompted showing it to me and I quietly answered "Umm talons..." While trying hard to get free of my bonds.
"No I think you know the answer and you're going to tell me" she whispered dangerously into my ear and getting very up close in an almost sexy if not absolutely terrifying and scared out of my mind way.
"Erm... I" I began to say but she put her hoof to my muzzle and stopped further speech whilst whispering "Shhhhh" and explaining "I think I'll show you what it means" before she strolled away from me and went over to the wall by the stairs.
Up until now the room had been pretty dank and dark and the only part illuminated was me and that left the walls pretty dark. However the minute my captor flipped the switch I couldn't help but gasp and stare at shock as the room lit up as extra lights flared up on the wall.
Everywhere the wall was covered in drawings, illustrations, schematics and text about generally one word. "HANDS" was scrawled across one part followed by a lot of dark marking and star with lots of candles and red paint... At least it looked like paint.
There were models of what looked like the apes hands but not like the ones drawn and designed in the various models around the room. The hands of the apes were black and leathery and covered in fur at the top but these were curlews and looked smooth and pale.
There were books about anatomy everywhere and across the wall I saw various words which also sprang up like "feet" and "humans" which I'd never heard of before and all scared me slightly.
" I can see that you like it well I spent years putting all the dreams up here together" she said pointing to her head "It took years to find references and draw these but now your here you're going to tell me about the humans" she said coming over to me and pulling up a chair.
I blinked when I connected the dots and realised that his was no other than Lyra, the second owner of the house and the pony who spent so much time in the basement working on the project.
I couldn't help but feel a different feeling to fear and this feeling was enough for me to break my bonds and yell in a rage "Why the hell did you club me over the head and tie me up"!
She was taken aback by my rage and worried when I stood up but she calmly explained "You just show up and steel our extra room and leave clues to your knowledge about humans lying around and you don't think I wouldn't beat you over the head and drag you down to the basement and then tie you up, you must come from some really deranged place now tell me about the hands!" She demanded but she seemed surprised when instead of yelling or saying anything for that matter I simply started laughing.
It was rolling laughter and it was slightly mad but I wasn't just mad I was furious and shouted "You dumb Unicorn, I live here now I signed the lodger form I thought Bon Bon told you, I even had a welcome party today which ended terribly and that isn't mine just a thing I'm holding for a friend which he was given by apes and I don't know anything about your stupid obsession with hands"!
I reared and she backed away as I almost lost my cool and hit her before I realised the despite the fact she'd almost knocked me out and thrown me slightly down the stairs and then tied me up and questioned me.
Giving the impression of being a lunatic I was still a gentlecolt and it was bad to hit a mare so I told her sternly "I understand you made a mistake just now but I think it would be best you don't mention anything about the object you have to anypony and I won't confess to everypony about you're freakish obsession with furless hands".
She perked up and asked "So you know something about humans after all"? But I shook my head and replied "These images look like hands of apes but without fur, if you want to know anything about the apes I can tell you some other time but right now I need first aid and a serious good night's rest and I really would like to just forget about this whole thing".
She seemed to slump her shoulder and magically pulled her mask to reveal a pretty face and a white and mint mane which matched her mint green coat.
She sighed with her head in her hooves as she sat down in the staircase in the awkward way I'd been tied to the chair by her a second ago and began to cry.
I couldn't believe that after all she'd just done she'd start to cry and I almost gave up on life there but unfortunately now that the fear I having my organs slowly removed and my secrets exposed was over I was back to the cocky, charming and awesome pony I usually was and asked "Why are you crying?
I mean if anything I should be crying with the amount of pain I'm in and the fact is I'm giving you a really good deal here so for you to go and cry makes no sense" I said but she continued to cry and it began to get awkward after five minutes of standing in the cold basement but luckily help from a guiding light came as Bon Bon descended the stares probably wondering what all the noise was and exclaimed "What In the name of sugar lumps is going on down here"?
She descended the stairs and saw Lyra crying and then I standing there with a large and probably purple bruise on my head and rope burns on my hooves for where I'd tried to escape whilst in fear for my life.
I expected Lyra to blame me but she simply went over and in consoling yet harsh words scolded "Lyra, what did I say about hitting ponies over the head and taking hen down here for interrogation. I mean this is the sixth time and we know now that the Princess will confiscate your stuff if you did this again and you've just done it"!
She kept sobbing but now Bon Bon sat next to her and Lyra buried her head in her shoulder. Bon Bon rubbed her friends back and looked over at me which I thought was my cue to speak so I just told her "It's ok, I would prefer not to let anypony know about this for my reputation and for Lyra's sake I mean it didn't hurt that much and it would look bad around town if everypony knew a mare kicked my ass down he stares" wincing as I finished that last part with the pain in my chest flaring up.
Lyra looked up from her friends shoulder and murmured something before burying her head back into the safety of her friends shoulder. "What she say?" I asked actually beginning to feel sorry for the mare that'd almost killed me. Bon Bon sighed and kindly replied "She said she sorry and that's a lot coming for her I mean I barely ever see her cry so congratulations she must have really hit you hard". I would have smiled but it came out as a scowl so to hide I asked "Where is the First Aid Kit"? Bon Bon nodded and pointed upstairs saying "It's in the kitchen and it's in the draw nearest. Do you need help"?
I shook my head and told her "That's fine Bon Bon, I'd really like to just bandage my head and go to bed but I think maybe you should take care of Lyra". She nodded in appreciation and just held Lyra softly stroking her mane and whispering things like "It's not your fault" and "It's going to be ok" to her in a sweet and caring tone.
Although mares were generally kind the way I'd seen how those two acted I wondered if they were just friends or something more. However this didn't take up my total processing power and I went back to grunting in pain as I trudged up the stairs and out of the cold basement.
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